Family influences every aspect of a person's growth. If parents are kind, a child learns to be kind. If parents are industrious, a child learns the importance of work. If parents are absent or withhold love or fail to take an interest in a child's activities, fears, thought and beliefs, that child will grow up empty, confused, angry and struggle to make sound decisions. We are all a reflection of our parents and to a lesser extent, our Grandparents.
Our sibling also influence us and are influenced by us. Similarly we are all influenced by the events that take place during our childhood and the effect of these events on our families. One can often look at a group of grown siblings and determine by their character the things that were of value to the parents and Grandparents of those children.
There are, of course, exceptions to the rule and the individual is shaped and influenced by everything and everyone they come in contact with during their lives. But the core values that make up who we are, what we believe and how we face difficulties are shaped during our childhoods. For some, a preponderance of negative events may build resilience and compassion. For others, the same events may leave a person bitter, angry, frustrated. For some, a life of privilege may lead to feelings of entitlement, in others a sense of appreciation and feelings of responsibility to the less fortunate.
In the fall of 2016, America will elect a new president to lead our country. With this in mind I have endeavored to come up with a topic that will embrace the political atmosphere we find ourselves wrapped in, while being of interest to the family historian. We know a little bit about our former presidents, good, bad and forgettable, but how much do we know about their family of origin that shaped their presidency, and through them, the country at large? Similarly, how much do we really know about the current candidates? Let us take a look at the families and , where available, the family lines of the former presidents and the 2016 presidential candidates. Who knows what we will discover. Perhaps you will find you are related to one of these interesting characters.
America has had 44 presidents since the inception of the country, including our current President Barack Obama. The following is a list of our presidents in order of their position:
Vice President
1. George Washington (1789-1797) John Adams (1789-1797)
2. John Adams (1797-1801) Thomas Jefferson (1797-1801)
3. Thomas Jefferson (1801-1809) Aaron Burr (1801-1805)
George Clinton (1805-1809)
4. James Madison (1809-1817) George Clinton (1809-1812)
None (1812-1813)
Elbridge Gerry (1813-1814)
None (1814-1817)
5. James Monroe (1817-1825) Daniel D. Tompkins (1817-1825)
6. John Quincy Adams (1825-1829) John C. Calhoun (1825-1829)
7. Andrew Jackson (1829-1837) John C. Calhoun (1829-1832)
None (1832-1833)
Martin Van Buren (1833-1837)
8. Martin Van Buren (1837-1841) Richard M. Johnson (1837-1841)
9. William Henry Harrison (1841) John Tyler (1841)
10. John Tyler (1841-1845) None (1841-1845)
11. James K. Polk (1845-1849) George M. Dallas (1845-1849)
12. Zachary Taylor (1849-1850) Millard Fillmore (1849-1850)
13. Millard Fillmore (1850-1853) None (1850-1853)
14. Franklin Pierce (1853-1857) William King (1853)
None (1853-1857)
15. James Buchanan (1857-1861) John C. Breckinridge (1857-1861)
16. Abraham Lincoln (1861-1865) Hannibal Hamlin (1861-1865)
Andrew Johnson (1865)
17. Andrew Johnson (1865-1869) None (1865-1869)
18. Ulysses S. Grant (1869-1877) Schuyler Colfax (1869-1873)
Henry Wilson (1873-1875)
None (1875-1877)
19. Rutherford B. Hayes (1877-1881) William Wheeler (1877-1881)
20. James A. Garfield (1881) Chester Arthur (1881)
21. Chester Arthur (1881-1885) None (1881-1885)
22. Grover Cleveland (1885-1889) Thomas Hendricks (1885)
None (1885-1889)
23. Benjamin Harrison (1889-1893) Levi P. Morton (1889-1893)
24. Grover Cleveland (1893-1897) Adlai E. Stevenson (1893-1897)
25. William McKinley (1897-1901) Garret Hobart (1897-1899)
None (1899-1901)
Theodore Roosevelt (1901)
26. Theodore Roosevelt (1901-1909) None (1901-1905)
Charles Fairbanks (1905-1909)
27. William Howard Taft (1909-1913) James S. Sherman (1909-1912)
None (1912-1913)
28. Woodrow Wilson (1913-1921) Thomas R. Marshall (1913-1921)
29. Warren G. Harding (1921-1923) Calvin Coolidge (1921-1923)
30. Calvin Coolidge (1923-1929) None (1923-1925)
Charles Dawes (1925-1929)
31. Herbert Hoover (1929-1933) Charles Curtis (1929-1933)
32. Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933-1945) John Nance Garner (1933-1941)
Henry A. Wallace (1941-1945)
Harry S. Truman (1945)
33. Harry S. Truman (1945-1953) None (1945-1949)
Alben Barkley (1949-1953)
34. Dwight D. Eisenhower (1953-1961) Richard Nixon (1953-1961)
35. John F. Kennedy (1961-1963) Lyndon B. Johnson (1961-1963)
36. Lyndon B. Johnson (1963-1969) None (1963-1965)
Hubert Humphrey (1965-1969)
37. Richard Nixon (1969-1974) Spiro Agnew (1969-1973)
None (1973)
Gerald Ford (1973-1974)
38. Gerald Ford (1974-1977) None (1974)
Nelson Rockefeller (1974-1977)
39. Jimmy Carter (1977-1981) Walter Mondale (1977-1981)
40. Ronald Reagan (1981-1989) George Bush (1981-1989)
41. George Bush (1989-1993) Dan Quayle (1989-1993)
42. Bill Clinton (1993-2001) Al Gore (1993-2001)
43. George W. Bush (2001-2009) Dick Cheney (2001-2009)
44. Barack Obama (2009-present) Joe Biden (2009-present)
http://www.presidentsusa.net/presvplist.html
The 2016 candidates as of 3/20/216:
HILLARY CLINTON
- Born: Oct 26, 1947
- Born: Sep 08, 1941
- Born: May 13, 1952
- Born: Dec 22, 1970
- Born: Jun 14, 1946
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